Parasite Cabin On The Side Of A Hotel

Where to find new space for building in the over-occupied centers of world leading cities? Artist Mark Reigelman has designed a great neo-romantic parasite shelter that’s attached to the side of the Hotel des Arts in San Francisco. The project ‘Manifest Destiny!’ is a temporary rustic cabin that occupies one of the last remaining unclaimed spaces of downtown San Francisco — above and between other properties. The idea of the project is to explore those spaces that are still available in the city’s vertical territory.

The temporary installation looks like a huge bird cabin floating above Restaurant Le Central, but is big enough to host a person. The interior is pretty classic and includes even a wood burning stove. If it is really possible to life here or if the room is used as an expansion of Hotel des Arts is not that clear. Nevertheless, it would be great to spend a night hanging on the wall of the hotel. The installation will remain in place and will be slowly transformed through October, 2012.

Recently we wrote about Contrail. This project even goes beyond that! Some guys have invented an amazing city printer called the Chalkbot. The Chalkbot is a fully automatic robot that is able to print the streets as if it’s a piece of A4 paper slightly slipping through your inkjet printer. Besides the fact that the…

Yesterday Guido Tamino started his project Print Stuff. Tamino has installed a printer in his room and enables people from all over the world to print stuff over the Internet. Everyone is invited to submit a short note together with a drawing or picture via a fully automated web form. After hitting ‘print’, a clean…

Artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky just finished an installation in Vancouver dubbed ‘A False Creek’. Partly a geographical pun (the Cambie Bridge crosses over Vancouver’s False Creek), the piece is a visualisation of the projected changes in sea levels over the coming years.

The Japanese design firm Logos has invented a pretty cool extendable tent, which is great for families that expect expansion on the short term. Logos’s creation enables you to start with a small tent for backpacking purposes and grow your empire on the campsite over time into a complete tent city. The modular tent system is…